Bates Motel: 10 Actresses Who Should Play Marion Crane
8. Billie Piper
Not many actresses start out as Doctor Who's companion and wind up as the Bride of Frankenstein, but rising Brit Billie Piper has done just that. Leaving the TARDIS in 2006, she can currently be seen steeped in Victorian melodrama as part of Sky's genre-twisting horror drama Penny Dreadful. Piper's main advantage, if she were to be put forward for the role of Marion, is her edge. Whether playing time traveller Rose Tyler, schedule-juggling prostitute Hannah in Secret Diary Of A Call Girl or... erm... period prostitute Brona in PD (albeit deceased), the viewer never quite knows what to expect from that highly expressive face. Her presence in Bates Motel would lend an extra dimension of added danger to a death-laden community, where the next maladjusted character is just around the corner!
I am a journalist and comedian who enjoys American movies of the 70s, Amicus horror compendiums, Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, Naomi Watts and sitting down. My short fiction has been published as part of the Iris Wildthyme range from Obverse Books.
